Nation: Black Milepost

Atlantans rightly pride themselves on their good race relations. Blacks
and whites worked together to head off serious racial strife in the
1960s. They avoided further confrontations in the 1970s by compromising
on a token voluntary school busing program. For four years Atlanta has
had a black mayor, Maynard Jackson. Last week the city passed another
milepost, for itself and the South, when Jesse Hill Jr., 51, a black
insurance executive, became president of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce, in effect becoming the titular head of the city's mostly
white business establishment.